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This listing contains all the analytical materials posted on the Russia Matters website. These include: RM Exclusives, commissioned by Russia Matters exclusively for this website; Recommended Reads, deemed particularly noteworthy by our editorial team; Partner Posts, originally published by our partners elsewhere; and Future Policy Leaders, pieces by promising young scholars and policy thinkers. Content can be filtered by genre and subject-specific criteria and is updated often. Gradually we will be adding older Recommended Reads and Partner Posts dating back as far as 2011.

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Contending With—Not Accepting—Spheres of Influence

Steven PiferMarch 05, 2020
RM Exclusives

While Washington does have to deal with Russia's efforts to establish a sphere of influence in its neighborhood, that doesn't mean the U.S. should accept the legitimacy of those efforts.

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After the Colored Revolution

Sean's Russia BlogFebruary 19, 2020
Partner Posts

In this episode of Sean's Russia Blog, host and Eurasia expert Sean Guillory speaks with Vasili Rukhadze, a visiting lecturer of political science at the University of Pittsburgh, about post-color revolution regimes.

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Competing Views on Russia

John Mearsheimer on Russia: Insights and Recommendations

Thomas SchaffnerSeptember 26, 2019
RM Exclusives

When Americans find their domestic politics the target of foreign interference, "they become deeply committed to the principle of self-determination." Not surprisingly, writes leading American international relations scholar John Mearsheimer, "so do the Russians."

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How the US Managed, and Mismanaged, Russia: A Superstar Diplomat Tells His Story

Graham AllisonMarch 12, 2019
RM Exclusives

William Burns’ new book describes his warnings to the Bush administration that pushing for NATO membership for Georgia and Ukraine would spur Moscow to use armed force in the former and to meddle in Crimea and eastern Ukraine.

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Competing Views on Russia

Robert Legvold on Russia: Insights and Recommendations

RM StaffNovember 20, 2018
RM Exclusives

“The chances in … the next 10-15 years of a nuclear weapon being fired in anger are far greater now than they ever were during the Cold War.” This and more from one of America’s top Russia scholars.

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The August War, Ten Years On: A Retrospective on the Russo-Georgian War

Michael KofmanAugust 17, 2018
Recommended Reads

In 2008, Moscow demonstrated the will and ability to actively contest the U.S. vision for European security, veto NATO expansion in its neighborhood and challenge Washington’s design for a normative international order where small states can determine their own affairs independent of the interests of great powers.

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When Does Vladimir Putin’s Russia Send In Troops?

Simon SaradzhyanAugust 07, 2018
RM Exclusives

Examining Putin’s three military interventions abroad, the author sees a pattern in which two conditions must be present for Russia to intervene with force: a threat to its vital interests and a reasonable chance of success.

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Russia Looks Out for Own Interests in Europe’s Elections But Risks Long-Term Blowback

Yuval WeberApril 19, 2017
RM Exclusives

Liberals worry about Russian meddling in elections from France to Bulgaria. But Moscow didn’t create Euro-skepticism; it's just good at exploiting existing fissures in Western societies—and has been for a long time. Here's where that may lead.